14:57, 19 JUL 2021
Updated18:23, 19 JUL 2021
Amanda Village's mum Sue was told 'not to look' at her baby after giving birth in the late 1960s
Amanda Village was adopted as a baby (Image: ITV)
Long Lost Family viewers will see a dance teacher have an emotional reunion with her biological mother who fell pregnant as a teen on a Welsh army base and gave her baby up for adoption
The ITV reunion show features 50-year-old Amanda Village, who visits the Tonfanau in Gwynedd, where her birth mother's dad was posted in the 1960s.
Amanda from Durham then finds out that she was called Susan Williams and was originally from Essex and fell pregnant while in Wales.
Susan gave birth to Amanda in 1969 after meeting her birth father, who was an army recruit, at the base. Amanda was adopted straight away.
Searcher Amanda Village (right) with her found birth mother Sue (left) (Image: ITV)
Sue, who was told by the doctor after giving birth not to look at her newborn, said: "I used to go to bed and cry some nights. You know, you just keep seeing it, you know, you close your eyes, and you just see her.”
An emotional Amanda told presenters Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell that she was afraid of getting hurt and thanked the show for finding her biological mother.
“I didn’t really want to know that I had another mum because I felt as if I wasn’t wanted,” Amanda said about the moment her adoptive mother told her she was adopted. And she says that her fear of rejection possibly put her off taking chances in life.
"I’m a person where if I don’t venture too far, I don’t get hurt."
Sue's eldest son Trevor with Sue, Amanda and Amanda's son, Kai (Image: ITV)
Susan, who has two sons, added: “I’ve always loved her… It felt as though I’d known her for years”. Amanda feels the same “I definitely knew I belonged to her.”
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